The
National Land League of Ireland
Press
Statement
17th
of January 2015
West
Court Hotel
Drogheda
The following statement is the official response of
the National Land League of Ireland
to recent High Court injunctions granted by Paul Gilligan to
K-Tech Security against supporters of the League and indeed the National Land
League of Ireland itself.
The injunctions in question were granted at a
hearing in which none of the named individuals or the National League
Provisional Committee were informed or present to defend themselves. The
injunctions are tantamount to the removal of the right of citizens to peaceful
protest and free expression and should be of concern to every right-minded
citizen in Ireland.
The injunctions relate to a boycott-protest aiming to
convince K-Tech Security to desist from their continued and increasing
participation in evictions and the receivership of small and medium businesses
and farms in Ireland. Across the nation, 100,000s of men, women and children
face eviction or receivership and K-Tech Security have proven themselves the
Security firm of choice within the industry.
The National land League of Ireland is in possession
of video footage, photographic footage and testimonies revealing paramilitary
styled K-Tech personnel intimidating, assaulting and harassing homeowners and
farmers. One film shows K-Tech personnel communicating with a homeowner through
the home front door whilst at the same time smashing the door down with a
sledgehammer. It would appear that K-Tech is the Yeomanry and Militia of today.
Only this week the owner of K-Tech, one Mr. McGarry, and his henchmen have been
stalking the families of pro-active League members, photographic evidence of
which we hold in our possession.
We have been informed by owners of other security
firms that K-Tech are abandoning and rejecting morally sound contracts for
better paying evictions and receiverships. We have time and again communicated
with K-Tech asking them to desist from participating in such immoral activities,
but to no avail. In response, the National Land League set itself on a course travelled
by the original founders of the League in 1879; we decided it necessary to
peacefully boycott K-Tech security.
As K-Tech are not a business householders would have
a relationship with, we decided to identify K-Tech clients as our medium of
boycott. We chose the Sunday World Irish Country Music Awards to be hosted in
the City West Hotel on the 26th of January 2015. K-Tech Security is
a permanent feature at the City West Hotel and although our boycott is not
directly aimed at the Awards, it is aimed at highlighting through the awards
and to the City West Hotel the unethical and immoral practices of K-Tech
Security.
In an effort to prevent us from acting upon our constitutional
right to peaceful assembly and freedom of speech, K-Tech have successfully
applied for a High Court injunction preventing us from doing so. We in the
National Land League of Ireland refuse to recognise the Order of any Court in
which we as Defendants were not informed of our trial and were prevented from
defending ourselves. Such is not a court or a trial but rather an unjust decree
from the apparatus of tyranny. To obey such a decree would be to cower in the
shadow of injustice, we shall never do that. To accept the removal of our right
to peaceful assembly and freedom of speech would be to insult the memory,
bravery and determination of the original founders of the League. We shall not
desist. We cannot desist.
We declare that we shall not be diverted from our
course with the threat of imprisonment. We shall not be called to heel whilst
half a million men, women and children face eviction and homelessness. We do
not encourage or wish to see our supporters jailed for exercising their right
to peaceful protest and freedom of speech, but we shall endure whatever we must
to uphold those rights. If we are imprisoned we shall be prisoners of
conscience and history shall know our accusers as criminals.
We say to K-Tech security that we have not yet
reached the midnight hour. Our consistent offers of discussion and negotiation
remain extended to you, but we ask that you refrain from participating in
evictions and SME and farm receiverships during talks. This is our only
condition to negotiation. If you continue to refuse our offer to talk we are
left with no choice but to continue the planned boycott protest at the City
West Hotel, but to also escalate the K-Tech Boycott campaign nationwide,
encompassing all K-Tech customers throughout the nation.
We call on all our supporters to attend this first
boycott protest at City West Hotel on the 26th of January at 5pm, the
first National Land League of Ireland boycott in 120 years. We ask our
supporters to be at the ready for a further escalation of this boycott against
K-Tech over the coming months. Also expect and prepare for the broadening of
the boycott net to local Solicitors and Barristers who assist financial
institutions in the asset strip of homeowners, small business people and
farmers.
As our forefathers in the National Land League of
Ireland freed themselves from the greed of the landlords, we shall free
ourselves of the shackles of banks and their agents. No matter the threats
against us we shall make real the words of Michael Davitt…
“Let
justice be done tho’ the Heavens fall”!!!!
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